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Medicare's "Global" terrorism: where is the pay for performance?

R Lawrence Reed¹, Fred A Luchette, Thomas J Esposito

¹Division of Trauma, Critical Care, and Burns, Department of Surgery, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois, USA. rreed@lumc.edu

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Published on: January 8, 2020

Area of Science:

Medical Economics
Surgical Reimbursement
Trauma Care Payment Models

Background:

Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) payment policies utilize a global surgical package concept.
This package is divided into preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative components.
Hypothesis: Global package valuations are often lower than comparable Evaluation and Management (E&M) services, making E&M billing potentially more profitable.

Purpose of the Study:

To compare the profitability of billing for surgical operations versus billing for E&M services in trauma patients.
To analyze Medicare's global surgical package payments for trauma care.

Main Methods:

Billing database and Trauma Registry data from the past 5 years were queried.
Preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative payments were calculated for 10-day and 90-day global packages.
Payments were compared to CMS payments for comparable E&M codes.

Main Results:

88% of 90-day and 100% of 10-day codes do not cover comprehensive history and physical for trauma patients.
70% of 90-day global packages would yield higher revenue if comprehensive daily visits were billed instead of the operation.
56% of 10-day global packages would yield higher revenue with problem-focused visits instead of the operation.

Conclusions:

Medicare's global surgical package significantly underpays E&M services for trauma patients.
Trauma surgeons may achieve higher reimbursement by billing for E&M services rather than bundled surgical operations.